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by Robert Hacker

Billion Dollar Company: An Entrepreneur’s Guide to Business Models for High Growth Companies

A practical, industry proven methodology that integrates strategy and finance in a five-step process to develop a new business concept. The methodology is illustrated by stories from the author?s success in building a billion dollar company in Indonesia. Focus is on developing the business model through a powerful heuristic and how this method makes it easy to develop financial models. An in-depth examination of financial models and their use in early stage capital raising is included.

by Robert Hacker

Scaling Social Entrepreneurship: Lessons Learned from One Laptop per Child

This book is a practical guide to developing a scaleable, social entrepreneurship venture (SEV). The author uses the popular “business model” concept and shows the important modifications that are required to build large, sustainable organizations to address social problems in the developing world. The author spent three years as the CFO of One Laptop per Child, one of the largest SEVs, and worked for over twenty years in the developing markets of Latin America and Asia. In a ten year period in Indonesia, where per capital income was only $600, he built a publicly traded billion-dollar retail company. Much of the thinking in the book has been shared with students at Florida International University and MIT Sloan where the author teaches.